Cellular and humoral immune responses associated with HTLV-I associated Myelopathy/Tropical spastic paraparesis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 835, Issue , 1997, Pages 142-152

  Levin, Michael C ^a,b   Jacobson, Steven ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

CELL INFILTRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MONOCYTE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE DISEASE;

HTLV; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1;

EID: 0031578752     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48625.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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